Beverly's review is wonderful. How exciting this is. Yay, Deb!
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Deena - Nov 15, 2003 6:17:31 pm PST #2751 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Hil R. - Nov 15, 2003 6:18:18 pm PST #2752 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
So, what counts as "verified"?
Sassy - Nov 15, 2003 6:18:57 pm PST #2753 of 10001
'Til we dance away...
Deb, when are you going to be in Seattle? I forgot if you posted it in Press or Beep Me.
Betsy HP - Nov 15, 2003 6:19:00 pm PST #2754 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Guys, be here now. Don't write tomorrow's stuff. Don't edit tomorrow's stuff. Don't worry about tomorrow's wordcount.
Write what you know. After you write that, you may well know something else. Write that.
And don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Deena - Nov 15, 2003 6:19:50 pm PST #2755 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Betsy, I love you.
deborah grabien - Nov 15, 2003 6:29:10 pm PST #2756 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
What Betsy said, bigtime.
Sassy, Seattle is first week of January: I have a confirmed event (Q&A, reading, signing, prezzies for questions) scheduled for 7 January. I'm hoping to get up there a few days earlier (say, the previous weekend) and we're trying to arrange a signing at Third Place Books.
edit: Hil, I'll take it on trust, most likely.
Sassy - Nov 15, 2003 6:43:34 pm PST #2757 of 10001
'Til we dance away...
Thanks Deb. I'm excited to go! I plan on buying your book for a Christmas present for at least one friend, so maybe she'll want to go, too.
deborah grabien - Nov 15, 2003 6:53:47 pm PST #2758 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Sassy, it ought to be fun. A nice lively evening.
I'm doing something unusual for me tonight: I'm reading ionstead of writing. I'm up to page 167 (in manuscript format) of the second book in this series, and it's definitely my favourite of the bunch. I hadn't looked at it since the final beta pass I got before sending it off to Ruth, back in March or thereabouts.
Beverly - Nov 15, 2003 9:15:42 pm PST #2759 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
my favourite of the bunch.
Mine too. There's a sweetness about Weaver, and a power about Matty, but Agnes rings some chimes in me that the others just don't do.
Thanks, Deena. I was admiring the economy and grace of yours. I'd like to take down one copy of my review--I put up a duplicate thinking I'd done something wrong and it hadn't posted. Novice mistake. But hey, if it counts as another review for Weaver, I'm leaving it.
How much do I want that Broomfield Hill tour shirt? A lot, that's how much.
Deena - Nov 15, 2003 9:25:54 pm PST #2760 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Okay, I'm rockin' and rollin'. After catching up in here I went and got busy -- deleted about a thousand words I hated, but... BUT... I've got 5100 words on my Nannynannybooboo. Woo Hoo.
I feel much better. Thanks for all the slug away encouragement, guys. I've got the words, "shitty first draft" running over and over in my head.
Beverly, grace? huh, and I was thinking, goodness, I sound like a schoolgirl next to your review. Funny.